The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-23
DIR. H0RNBLOWER SHOT.
4 DESPERATE ENCOUNTER WITH
BURGLAR IN HIS BEDROOM

MRS. eOrnplOWc" elfSu laCk!6S Ene IN
truder ard FEELS Kim With Chair
He Grapples With Her Again, But is
Shot by the Wounded Doctor-Four
Other Burglars Send a Shower of
Bullets Into the Room.
From the Nefo York Sun.
Dr. Theodore r. Hornblower, one of the
best known citizens Of Jersey City Heights.
woke up unexpectedly just before daybreak
yesterday morning and had red-hot time
of it for the next few minutes, with five
men who had broken into his house with
the design of walking off with all the valua-
bles in it, but who were compelled to change
their programme. What makes it more
interesting to the doctors fellow-towns-
people is the fact that the doctors good
looking wife, Mrs. Julia A. Hornblower,
tackled one of the burglars and nearly cap
tured him. He is now in hiding somewhere
in Jersey City, or this city, with a 32-cali-
bre bullet in his throat that Dr. Hornblower
fired at him in return for 22-calibre ball
that he fired at the doctor. The burglars
bullet made flesh wound only, lust grazing
the doctors jugular vein.
DR.. Hornblow, lives at 30 Central avenue.
Its front is a handsome pea green, with
bright red shutters. 1t is just around the
corner from the Doctors spacious drug
store, AZ Hoboken avenue He is q member
of the famous Hornblower family that dates
back to revolutionary days. He retired
with his wife to the front room on the top
floor on Monday night, and his wife's sister
and servant retired to separate beds in an
adjoining room. These sleeping rooms are
reached by separate doors from the hall,
and they do not communicate with each
other. The Doctors bed is in corner L of
the front room, near the front windows, and
has bureau next to it against the wall
nearest the staircase. There are three win
dows in the room, and the Doctor just be-
fore retiring, opened the bottom sash of the
one farthest from the bed.
Mrs. Hornblower, who by chance slept
uneasily, heard somebody rummaging
around soon after $50 o'clock, and also
heard footsteps on the stairs So she awoke
her husband.
"There are thieves in the house." she
cried. II hear them"
At that instant the shadowy figure of a
short, thick-set man walked stealthilv
across the room to the open window and
raised his hand to shut down the sash. The
doctor and his wife sprang out of bed
simultaneously, and Mrs. Hornblower
screamed for help and the police. The
IL
treated toward the door that he had left
open behind him, and the doctor began to
grope his way to the bureau. In the top
drawer was a loaded 32-calibre five
shooter. Mrs. Hornblower moved
in the same direction and ran
against heavy, straight backed, cane
bottom chair She grasped the back in
both hands, raised the chair over her head,
and without a moments hesitation rushed
at the shadowy form of the burglar and
brought the chair down on his head with
all her strength. She is a compact, we'll
built woman, with grayish hair, although
only about So years old. The burglar went
over in heap in a corner by the door.
Just then the window in the back room was
opened with bang, and female voice be-
gan to shout loudly, "Murder!" police p
1t was the Doctors sister-in-law, and she
shouted so long and so steadily that she
woke up everybody except the police in the
station house around the corner. She had
heard the scuffle with the burglar and had
started to run out into the hall to find out
what the matter was, but she had found
herself imprisoned in her room. Two
burglars were holding the door shut
The burglar that Mrs. Hornblower had
felled recovered in second OF two. He
sprang to his feet, seized the chair, and
flung it straight at Mrs. Hornblower II
struck her and hurt her, but, on the other
hand. she got possession of the chair. She
rushed at the burglar again, and forced him
against the wall Behind the'door. By this
time DR.. Hornblower had got hold of his
pistol and was striding toward the burglar
1t was getting very uncomfortable for that
visitor, and, with a mighty effort he flung
Mrs. Hornblower from him, and yanked a
22-calibre revolver from his coat pocket
I'm fire if you don't let me CO." he said
you dare not shoot me-" cried Mrs
Hornblower, as she rushed in upon the bur
glar.
Instantly he raised the pistol and fired. A
bullet sped past her shoulder and struck 9
toilet bottle on the bureau The flash mo-
mentarily lit up the burglars face, and the
Doctor and his wife saw that he wore q
black SLOUGH hat and spectacles. He APP
peared to be dressed in black throughout
Dr. Hornblower reached for the burglars
throat after the shot at his wife, and the
burglar grabbed the big wooden cover of a
sewing machine that stood in the corner
near where he had fallen, and hurled it al
his new assailant 1t hit the Doctor on the
leg, and bruised the flesh. The pain made
the Doctor fusie- and he sprang forward
to close in up, > burglar, whom the lat
ter tired again, and sent bullet straight al
nun. He was only three feet from the bur
giar, and it struck his neck less than al
inch from the jugular vein. The Doctor
Jlen changed his mind about graphing witt
the burglar, and let bullet drive at hin
instead. 1t took the burglar right in the
throat. He staggered and fell heavily
against the wall, against which the blood
from the wound spurted.
by" he cried. I'm shot; Pm shot.
There was a rush in the hall, and the two
burglars who had been holding the door o.
tine back room, darted into the doctors
room, grabbed their wounded confederat,
by the arms, and dragged him away. DR.
Hornblower followed them few steps ir
the dark and fired after them, and then re
treated. What made him retreat was a FIJI
silade of shots that unexpectedly openet
from the stairway below. There were two
more burglars down there, and they firec
nine shots altogether into the doctors room
Well kill you for this, they cried.
All this time they were rctreating to thu
basement
The Rev. DR.. EalSin, pastor of the Simp
son Methodist church, on the corner diago
naliy opposite Dr. Horpblowers, came dash
ing out of the parsonage, bareheaded anc
parefooted, while the burglars were firing
ne saw them escape from the basement anc
run III different directions. Ono wen
straight up Central avenue, two dashec
uoWn to Hobo2en avenue, and fourth
supporting the wounded burglar, ran along
fleet street toward st. Pauls avenue.
Or. Horublower, who had slipped on hi
trousers, coat and shoes, followed the patti
along which the wounded burglar and hi
coinrade bad fled Little pools of BLOOD